Sentence examples for small but productive from inspiring English sources

Its upper course is joined by numerous tributaries, including the Sai and Uono rivers, both of which drain small but productive and populous intermontane basins.

Indeed, many mainstream economists argued that a smaller but more productive population would enhance growth and lead to a more just society.

On coral reefs large herbivores such as fishes and sea urchins can remove >90% of the daily seaweed production and maintain a "grazing lawn" of small, highly productive, algal turfs that supports a large portion of the secondary production on reefs [1], [2], [3].

He said that they were in a tight, small, very productive team and if we left them alone he felt they could be incredibly productive.

14 Also recent study by Pérez Velasco Pavón (2014) finds that Indigenous workers tend to work in small scale productive units which are known to be less productive.

Government policies that promote the existence of small less productive firms by levying taxes on large ones can generate big TFP and output losses.

Such a move is feasible, because some villages in central and western parts of Bhutan have shown a strong inclination towards raising small and productive cattle herds (Wangchuk et al. 2014).

More than half the worlds food is still grown on tiny farms that are less then 2 acres - millions of small and productive farms all over the world.

Perhaps we could cobble one together out of thousands of smaller, less productive fields, but the likelihood of a few massive fields 1,100 feet under the ground waiting to be found is extremely remote.

Therefore, birds from small and poorly productive populations uttered poor repertoires compared to those of large and productive populations (Fig. 1).

Brazil became "a huge service economy underwritten by a small, productive commodity sector", observes Tony Volpon of Nomura, a bank.